The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1887-06-08

or barn unlercured. Wheat intended
for market or milling should also be cut
before fully ripe, but nearer full ripenesS
than oats. Tie husk or bran will ther
be thinner and the yield OF flour will be
better than if the grain be permitted tc
fully harden. But al grain intended
for seed should 10 fully ripe, especially
oats. It is ~ excellent plan to so ovel
the fields and select the choicest heads
lin advance Of the b&rvest;ng>, stripping
! by hand and keeping the grain separate
IL this way the quality OF the seed IL
any desired respect may be kept up to
the original standard OF excellence, and
even much improved. It is probable
that the popular rust proof oats and
otlle- varieties OF grain We're discovered
and perpetuated in this way.
SWEET PoTAToEs.
This is the favored time for cnlarging
the area IN sweet pototoes. The vines
planted now will do ss well, if not bet
ter, than the slips from the old bed.
But whether cut vines or slips be used,
paintings in June or July will make
cheaper and better keeping tubers than
paintings made during the months OF
April and May, because they grow oil at
once AMI require much less cultivation.
We used to take pride in setting the
earliest slips and the largest area early
in the season, until We discovered that
some of our neighbors who were not SO
smart made more and better potatoes by
planting later.
We consider the sweet potato crop as
possessing great undeveloped possibll-
ties. It IS about the cheapest hog food
that can be produced in our climate and
certai lly one Of the most healthful as
well as convenient. An important secret
in sweet potato planting is to have the
ground well prepared beforehand and
freshly plowed just before setting out
the slips or vines. If not convenient to
reverse the beds after rain and just be-
fore planting, the patch should be
plowed, or at least boed, just as soon as
practicable. Plants set in q sodde0,
compact soil do not flourish and grow
off as well as # set in mellow, freshly
plowed soil.
In planting vines We have foard it to
pay to prepare the cuttings with some
degree of care, dividing them into pieces
containing from three to five leaves (ac-
corGing to distance between leaves and
inserting two 10 three Joints only i'll the
ground There will be fewer potatoes
in hill, but they viii be larger and
smoother than when much more Of the
vine is inserted in the ground.
FIELD PEAS.
This is the best time for planting field
peas, whether for seed or improving the
land. No corn field should be without
g row of peas between the rows of corn,
or broa@rasteG over the field. The crop
costs little more than the seed and
is probably the best paying crop planted
in the South in proportion to the in
vestment in seed and labor If some
bunch variety is already growing in rows
it is not bad idea to SOW again just
ahead of the last plowing. For this pur-
pose the Conch p;a, or some other run
ming kind, is best. /: is often recon-
mended to SOW peas after wheat and
oats. It is good farming to do SO when
practicable. But it SO cften occurs that
the ground is too dry and hard to per
nit OF plowing and getting the peas up
that the plan cannot be relied on as g
part of a regular system. Sometimes it
can be done, often it cannot. II the
grou-d can be plowed the best way we
have found to do it is to list two burrows
together tapping the slices turned and
leaving narrow ridge to be opened out
with shovel, followed by pea-dropper,
and the peas covered. Three furrows,
after the peas are well up, Will usually
suffice for the cultivation.
FORAGE CROPS.
Forage crops, like cat-tail millet, milo
maize, katfir corn and sorghum, may
still be planted, but the land should be
proportionately better as the planting is
later. We have had no personal expert
ence with milo maize, but doubt if it IS
any better for green-soiling than the old
standby cat-tail millet. For curing into
hay for use by and by, the German mil
| let and common corn answer better,
albeit the latter is very difficult to cure
perfectly.
The German millet should be sown
broadcast in well-broken land, and at the
rate of one-half to one bushel Of seed
per acre and narrowed in. Sow the corn
in drills three to four feet apart at the
rate Of three bushels of seed per acre.
The ordinary popcorn is said to be cx-
celleut for this purpose.
TURSIPS.
Land intended to be sown IL turnips,
especially if ratabasas are to be grown,
should receive atte.!:ion by repeated
deep rioHings Until the time tor seeai1g s
arrives. We ere rot strong IN o0r ed-
yocacy OF tarnipS as L stock crop II Tic
cottuA bslt. oar fall climate IS general
" too dry ior turnips, and unless every
other condition ct success is faithfully
cor..Iied With, the f.iillirys will be often
er tatn the hits; yet dis vegetable IS SO
desirable fcr the table, as well as for
stock, that L moderate area should be
sown. II they fail, it is easy to devote
the lind to so2le fall crop, as rye, barley
or wheat.
HOGS.
We have long believed that the predis-
posing causes OF hog cholera ere INSULT,
cient or unnatural food and want OF
plenty Of pure water. The disease Is
well kpown to be infectious, but 1t IS
known that even infectious diseases
more readily attack where there are pre-,
aisposing causes. The hog, in a state
Of ils,tture, herbivorous, subsisting OF
roots, grass and nuts, and ranging the
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